BERKELEY COUNTY, SC — A lawsuit filed by multiple former detention officers last month has moved from state court to the federal court system. They are speaking out against their former employers, saying that former sheriff Wayne Dewitt and Berkeley County Government broke the law by not paying them and other employees for overtime. The five former employees and their […]
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.—Starting Monday, inmates inside the Hill Finklea Detention Center will have additional space to move around in. After six years, the third floor of the jail is now open. “It’s been a long process as all of us know. It wasn’t easy to get where we are. There was a lot of work, a lot of time and […]
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.—According to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, Jennifer Lee Scott, 43, of Ladson has been charged with assault and battery in the second degree, a misdemeanor. SLED agents say Scott is a former nurse at the Hill Finklea Detention Center in Moncks Corner. According to the affidavit, in May 2013, Randall Ford, an inmate at the Hill Finklea […]
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–According to Berkeley County Coroner Bill Salisbury, on August 21, at approx. 1:30 a.m., Dustin James Powell, 28, of Cottageville was found hanging and unresponsive in his cell at the Hill-Finklea Detention Center. He was transported by EMS to a local hospital and pronounced dead, Salisbury stated. The coroner stated that Powell was alone in his cell. The […]
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